Hand-stamp



H. HOLT.

Hand Stamp. No. 13,495. Patented Aug. 28, 18.55.

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or supportthat sustains the vertical rod or UNIT HORACE HOLT, OF WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAND-STAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent N 0.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE HOLT, of Vinchester, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hand Stamps, and that the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exact specification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature and principles of my said improvements by which my invention may be distinguished from others of a similar class, together with such parts as I claim and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent.

The figures of the accompanying plate of drawings represent my improvements.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved hand stamp. Fig. 2 is a central ver tical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan or top view.

In my improved hand stamp, the stamp or die is attached to a vertical rod or piston that is moved downward by the hand applied to a knob attached to the upper end of the same, and retracted into position, after the impression has been effected, by a spiral spring; in these respects not difiering from other stamps which have been devised.

The peculiar feature of my invention, consists in providing an ink face or receptacle, directly under the die or stamp, and a cover to the same, which serves both as a platen to the stamp, and as a cover to the ink pan, being combined so as to be moved either over the ink pan, when it serves as a platen to the stamp, or entirely clear of the same, so as to allow the stamp to be depressed into the ink pan and receive its supply. The cover or platen is held, when moved off the ink pan, by a spring that presses against the sides or faces of the arm of the said cover or platen.

a a a in the drawings represents the stand piston b b to which the stamp 0 is secured. The rod 6 b is guided in its vertical movement by a stud d that enters into a slot or groove 6 e of the rod 6 b, as will readily be understood by inspection of Fig. 2.

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f is a knob to which the hand is applied in giving the downward movement to the stamp, and g g a spiral spring coiled around the rod 7) b, by which it is carried up into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

71 72 is the ink pan or fountain in which is inserted a piece of felt, or other proper material, saturated with ink.

2' 2 is the cover, turning upon a pivot at 71" in such a manner as to be readily moved over the ink pan, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or entirely clear of the same, as represented in Fig. A piece of felt, Z, or other soft material, is secured to the top of the cover 7. Z.

The operation of the stamp is as follows. The cover 2' 2' is first moved off from the ink pan, as shown in Fig. 2, and is held in position by a stiff spring m, the stamp is then forced down by the hand into the ink pan, where it receives its supply of ink, and is elevated again by the spiral spring 9 g. The cover 2' i is then returned to its original position over the ink pan, and the article to be stamped or printed, placed upon it. The impression is then given by pressing down the stamp as before, the cover 2'- i serving as a platen to the article to be printed.

Having thus described my improvements in hand stamps, I shall state my claim as follows:

What I claim as my invention and desire to have secured to me by Letters Patent is A hand stamp in which the stamp is inked and the impression effected by the movement of the stamp in one vertical plane, the ink pan or fountain being arranged directly under the stamp, and provided with a cover which can be moved away from or upon the said pan or fountain, thereby serving both as a cover to the ink receptacle, and as a platen to the article to be printed.

HORACE HOLT.

Witnesses JOSEPH GAVETT, F. R. LINCOLN. 

